Anti-Semitism And The Holocaust
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- The Nuremberg Laws, 1933-39, Anti-Jewish laws
- Forced Jews to register and wear Star of David
- This turned into forcing Jews out of careers and homes
- Prohibited marriage between Jews and Non Jewish Germans, Finally loss of citizenship
- Kristallnacht , 9 November 1938, Kristall (glass), Nacht (night)
- Referring to the thousands of Jewish shop and synagogue windows that were smashed and burned
- Many Jews imprisoned, State sanctioned event,
- Propaganda. mass rallies
- Josef Goebbels, the propaganda minister, one of the most powerful men in the Nazi party
- Effected all aspects of German life
- Promoted: Aryan Race, Anti-Semitism, Anti-Communism
- Lebensraum (living space in the east)
- Organized mass rallies for army and citizens, Nuremburg night rallies the most famous
- Hitler’s original idea as laid out in Mein Kampf
- Aryan (Nordic race) thought to be superior beings, Jews made out to be universal scapegoats
- Originally Jews were sent to work camps to do manual labour
- July 1941 final solution = extermination of the Jewish race a priority
- Carried out by Einsatzgruppen a special section of the S.S.
- Shooting and burying them was not fast enough, Gas chambers became the popular
- Made famous places such as Auschwitz
- Holocaust prior to WWII was a term that referred to a burnt offering or destruction by fire
- The first reports to the west came in Jan. of 1942 when the New York Times reported 100,000 Jews had been machine gunned in the Baltic States
- July 1944 Allied powers got their first eye witness accounts when the Soviets liberated a camp called Majdanek
- 1945 Auschwitz is discovered
- It is now believed up to 6 million Jews died during the Holocaust
Summary
The Holocaust was debatably the single worst event that has ever happened in history. it began with a series of anti-Semitic laws that were brought in by Hitler's party, that forced Jews out of job careers and homes. they then began to prohibit marriage, and then took their citizenship away. it got progressively worse as many Jewish people began to be sent to camps, and killed. The holocaust was one of the worst mass killings in history, with an estimated 6 million Jews being killed.
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Why do you think Hitler thought it was a good idea to do these terrible things?
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If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example.”
- Anne Frank
- Anne Frank